The Philharmonic orchestra of London (in English: London Philharmonic Orchestra , often shortened in LPO ) is one of principal the symphony orchestras English. It is based with the Royal Festival Hall , with London.
Great names were named with the head of the orchestra: Adrian Boult (1951-57), Bernard Haitink (1967-79) or Georg Solti (1979-83). In 2000, Kurt Masur officiates at this station of 2000 to 2007, year when the first chief invited Vladimir Jurowski is promoted with the head of the orchestra. Yannick Nézet-Séguin must become in its turn first chief invited in 2008.
One can also quote the two last symphonies of Antonín Dvořák with Carlo Maria Giulini with the direction, several symphonies of Dmitri Chostakovitch with Bernard Haitink or the Variations Enigma of Edward Elgar with Adrian Boult.
Apart from the traditional repertory, the LPO recorded many film musics like Lawrence of Arabia , Philadelphia , Mission or the Lord of the Rings . One finds there also musics of video games like those of the series of the Dragon Quest or theoriginal one of the first episode of Xenosaga . The orchestra also sometimes took again great pieces of the popular Musique such as the album Corea Concerto of Chick Corea and Once of Nightwish. In the middle of the Nineties, the LPO carried out several homages to rock groups like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and The Who.
Simple: London Philharmonic Orchestrated
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